Informative Essay On Circumcision

Circumcision is the practice, or ritual, in where both sexes’ genitals get some parts removed, cut, gashed, or injured; reasons may vary from improvement of hygiene, religious practices, to simply following family traditions. In order to reveal the head of the penis, three possible procedures can be performed varying from the Gompo Clamp, “a probe is used to separate the foreskin from the head of the penis (they are usually joined by a thin membrane). Next a bell-shaped device is fitted over the head of the penis and under the foreskin (an incision may be made in the foreskin to allow this). The foreskin is then pulled up and over the bell and a clamp is tightened around it. A scalpel is used to cut and remove the foreskin.” (KidsHealth),

Well, some people who have had the experience with cleaning and maintaining the penis of a newborn can argue that a circumcised penis is much easier to clean than one with the foreskin still attached. This is a misconception, it serves more difficulty to clean a newborn’s circumcised penis. The person taking care of the infant must carefully clean around the wound and apply ointment to it. They must also keep feces from the wound as to avoid any future complications. When the child is born, the foreskin cannot retract/be pulled back on its own nor by anyone else. When the foreskin is retracted too early, it often causes the infant pain since the foreskin is completely attached to the head of the penis. One of the foreskin’s purpose is to maintain feces out of the member and to remove it completely will, if not taken care of properly, most likely cause infections and other harmful/painful illnesses. The easiest way to clean an uncircumcised penis to simply wipe around it (Narvaez). There is also the fear of smegma, a buildup of dead skin cells and other crud produced by the genitalia of both men and women, once an uncircumcised male grows older. This perturbation can easily go away just by maintaining good and normal hygienic routine like showering, bathing, regularly. By the same token, most uninformed individuals believe that circumcision prevents UTIs, once again this is fictitious. The fallacy that uncircumcised males have a higher risk of contracting a UTI is credited to Wiswell and his colleagues in their famous study done in 1989, where they looked at charts of males babies born in a hospital. This study was very flawed and in turn, defective. The problems that the study had includes, “that it didn't accurately count whether or not the babies were circumcised, whether they were premature and thus more